THE INDIAN DETECTIVEis executive produced by Golden
Globe®-winning and Emmy®-nominated Frank
Spotnitz (The Man in the High Castle, The X-Files) of Big
Light Productions, Lance
Samuels and Daniel
Iron (Madiba, The Book of Negroes) of Blue Ice Pictures, and Mark
Burton of Wonder Worldwide.

THE INDIAN DETECTIVE, a fish-out-of-water story with equal
doses of comedy and high-stakes drama, follows Toronto cop Doug D’Mello (Peters)
as he becomes embroiled in a murder case while visiting his father,
Stanley (Kher) a retired airline pilot in India. The
investigation leads Doug to uncover a dangerous conspiracy involving
David Marlowe (Shatner), a billionaire property developer, while
dealing with his own ambivalence towards a country where despite his
heritage, he is an outsider.

THE INDIAN DETECTIVEis a co-production between Big
Light Productions, Blue Ice Pictures, the IDC, Wonder Worldwide and Bell
Media. The series was created, executive produced, and written for
Russell Peters by Frank Spotnitz and Smita Bhide (Hunted,
Transporter: The Series). The series is directed by BAFTA
award-winner Sandy Johnson (Benidorm, Jonathan Creek) and
produced by Trevor Hopkins (Fortitude, Cuffs). It is executive
produced by Blue Ice Pictures’ Lance Samuels and Daniel Iron (Madiba,
The Book of Negroes), Wonder Worldwide’s Mark Burton (Water, Tallulah),
Russell Peters (Hip-Hop Evolution), CPI Pictures’ Clayton Peters (Breakaway,
Russell Peters Versus the World), and Seven Summits’ Paul
Canterna. Co-executive producer is Sharon Remmer (The Man in the High
Castle, Medici: Masters of Florence).

The project is financed by Blue Ice Pictures and the Industrial
Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC).